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Clacton-on-Sea market report CO16, Clacton-On-Sea
The standing CO16 (Clacton-on-Sea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 15,864 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO16 (Clacton-On-Sea) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CO16 (Clacton-On-Sea) sold for £265,000 in 2026, the median of 150 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £292,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,480 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 15,864 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CO16 is the postcode district covering Clacton-on-Sea, St Osyth, Little Clacton in Clacton-On-Sea. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CO16 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
Today's CO16 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CO16 is £265,000, taken from 150 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £292,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CO16
By floor space, homes in CO16 have sold for about £3,480 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CO16 sits 7% below the national market.
The price of a typical CO16 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £265,000 | £265,000 | 150 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 418 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 395 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 349 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 633 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 788 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 506 |
| 2019 | £243,500 | £319,170 | 500 |
| 2018 | £235,000 | £313,259 | 454 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 471 |
| 2016 | £193,000 | £270,009 | 523 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 546 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 543 |
| 2013 | £157,500 | £226,627 | 404 |
| 2012 | £152,500 | £224,461 | 303 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 313 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | £250,921 | 265 |
| 2009 | £142,800 | £229,552 | 286 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 296 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 553 |
| 2006 | £162,500 | £282,079 | 597 |
| 2005 | £160,500 | £285,625 | 457 |
| 2004 | £151,000 | £274,246 | 586 |
| 2003 | £133,000 | £245,018 | 555 |
| 2002 | £116,000 | £218,253 | 657 |
| 2001 | £86,800 | £166,869 | 703 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 663 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 675 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 605 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 639 |
| 1996 | £45,800 | £96,590 | 555 |
| 1995 | £51,300 | £111,518 | 476 |
In cash terms the typical CO16 home went from £51,300 in 1995 to £265,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 138%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO16 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+33.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CO16 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.6% | −10.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.8% | −6.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 51% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £320,000 against £120,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, CO16
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £320,000 | 83 | 8,142 |
| Semi-detached | £225,000 | 45 | 4,875 |
| Terraced | £230,000 | 15 | 2,077 |
| Flats | £120,000 | 7 | 770 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 318 sales completed in CO16. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 596 sales a year before the financial crisis and 389 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the CO16 market
Among the 16 measurable districts of its area, CO16 ranks 13 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What tenants pay around CO16
For renting purposes CO16 sits in Tendring. The ONS average private rent there is £1,051 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £757 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,585, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tendring
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £265,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,051 a month (£12,612 a year) works out at a 4.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
CO16 (Clacton-on-Sea): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CO16 (Clacton-on-Sea)?
Are property prices falling in CO16 (Clacton-on-Sea)?
Is CO16 (Clacton-on-Sea) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CO16 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CO16's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CO16 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 99 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 32% above the CO16 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- The Green, Tendring, Clacton-on-Sea
- Beacon Heights, St. Osyth, Clacton-on...
- Plot 19 The Wisteria, Crossways Gardens, Thorpe Road, Little Clacton, Essex
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CO16 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CO area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £315,000 | £430,000 (+37%) | £625,000 (+45%) | £865,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | £285,000 (+16%) | £335,000 (+18%) | £420,000 (+25%) | £565,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £225,000 | £255,000 (+13%) | £299,995 (+18%) | £381,000 (+27%) | £507,500 (+33%) |
| Flat | £150,000 | £190,000 (+27%) | £287,500 (+51%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CO16 ranks 15 of 16 in the CO area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the CO area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CO16, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO16 0 | £360,000 | 16 |
| CO16 7 | £223,800 | 18 |
| CO16 8 | £256,500 | 76 |
| CO16 9 | £305,000 | 40 |
How CO16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CO5 | £385,000 | +3% |
| CO6 | £385,000 | +1% |
| CO3 | £340,000 | +4% |
| CO8 | £335,000 | -13% |
| CO7 | £324,000 | -2% |
| CO9 | £323,500 | +8% |
| CO4 | £320,000 | +3% |
| CO13 | £320,000 | +0% |
| CO10 | £315,000 | +1% |
| CO11 | £310,000 | +0% |
| CO2 | £275,000 | +10% |
| CO14 | £266,500 | +9% |
| CO16 (this report) | £265,000 | -9% |
| CO15 | £236,000 | +7% |
| CO12 | £234,500 | +2% |
| CO1 | £231,500 | +4% |
Thinking of selling in CO16? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CO16, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO16's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO16 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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See every individual CO16 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.